Savannah Guthrie shared a painful Easter message as her mom, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.
The “Today” anchor appeared in a video for Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter gathering Sunday. Guthrie talked about the importance of Easter and the happiness it brings, before acknowledging she was currently having a hard time.
“We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death. Standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away,” she said. “When life itself seems far harder than death.”
“These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment,” she continued. “For most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway. “
Guthrie went on to note that according to her faith, she’s taught to take comfort in the fact that Jesus also experienced pain. But again, she noted she’s currently questioning feelings.
“Recently though in my own season of trial I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel, this grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld.”
“In those darkest moments, I have thought bitterly and perhaps irreverently that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know.”
She noted that “it isn’t wrong to think such thoughts, to challenge our God with questions.” Guthrie said she wanted to fully acknowledge her feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death.
“It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed,” she explained.
“So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine,” she added. “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth pass away because they are one on earth as it is in heaven.”
“When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate. And I celebrate too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction, Happy Easter.”
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